Whitely Strieber [author of bestsellers about UFO encounters such as Communion and Transformation as well as obviously occult books such as Night Church and Black Magic]:

"I became entirely given over to extreme dread. The fear was so powerful that it seemed to make my personality completely evaporate...'Whitley' ceased to exist. What was left was a body and a state of raw fear so great that it swept about me like a thick, suffocating curtain, turning paralysis into a condition that seemed close to death... I died, and a wild animal appeared in my place.."

"One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts (animals), slow bellies." Titus 1:12

"If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus." 1 Cor 15:32